Interstoff Directions Trend Committee (a part of Messe Frankfurt in Hongkong) tells the story of tomorrow’s apparel fabric trends to help designers and garment professionals gear up for the upcoming fashion season. This year they have released 4 trends to mark a very joyous and colorful season with cutting edge textiles.

Drive the Change: Take the situation in your hands and risk the creativity. It is time to express individual capacities in order to drive the change towards more quality than quantity, comfort and security, authenticity and sustainability, emotion and dreams. Durable values, capable to reset our life’s rhythm, to introduce new languages in a constant dialogue between tradition and modernity that conceive fabrics in a dream like dimension, which serves to provide refuge from a not very happy reality and to look into the future with greater confidence and positivity.

Fashion joins sustainability, leading the way towards a world more respectful of environmental qualities and renewable resources. Function meets fashion, integrating the most advanced performances and technologies into creative fashionable products.

Shapes recall the feminine silhouettes of the 50’s, seductive and robust at the same time.

LAYERS OF TIME:

Layers of Time by Interstoff Asia Essential

Colors are modulated by a vintage patina. Dense faded dark, tones of wood and earth.

Materials with a sense of authenticity, durability, sustainability and comfort will remain popular. Woolen twills, haphazard tweeds, redesigned tartans and checks, historic lace in new laser cut variations, compact double-jersey and coarse canvas, mohairs and natural alpaca blends will take the power in hands. Tapestry, jacquards and brocades, historical paisleys on velvets and satins will be seen too. Using technology to reproduce crafted fabrics and coatings for aging, evolving, metamorphosing, twisting traditional fabrics will dictate the fashion arenas.

Shapes reveal the confidence in secure values of rigorous elegance and timeless comfort.